23. The Changing Landscape of the Tech Industry: Diversity
Claire Lee and Chris Castle
Opportunities for women and underrepresented people interested in running their own start-ups are greater than ever before. In this second half of a two-part episode, Claire Lee, the head of the early stage group at Silicon Valley Bank,...
22. The Changing Landscape of the Tech Industry
Claire Lee and Chris Castle
From founder demographics to the problems a startup faces, Silicon Valley -- and the world -- are changing. In this first half of a two-part episode, Claire Lee, the head of the early stage group at Silicon Valley Bank, talks about how...
21. Building APIs that Integrators Want To Use
Matte Noble and Idan Gazit
We often think of an integration as communicating with just a single API, but it's not uncommon for some applications to pass data between several platforms. Sentry does just that, acting as a conduit between different services, so that...
20. Becoming a Junior Developer
Shirley Xiaolin Xu, Eric Chen, and Chris Castle
Transitioning into a career in tech can be intimidating and challenging, but everyone starts somewhere. On this episode, Chris Castle chats with Shirley Xiaolin Xu and Eric Chen about their experiences as Junior Developers at Heroku. After...
19. Securing the Web with Let's Encrypt
Josh Aas and Craig Ingram
Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority with a humble goal: to make HTTPS encryption ubiquitous across the web. Co-founder Josh Aas is on this episode to tell us about how TLS/SSL works, the challenges Let's Encrypt has faced, and potential...
18. The Making of Trailhead
Tyler Montgomery, Shaun Russell, and Chris Castle
Trailhead is an e-learning platform that teaches a wide range of topics, from Git and Swift, to Marketing and Analytics. It was also built and launched in just six short weeks. Tyler Montgomery and Shaun Russell join us from Salesforce to...
17. Integrating Terraform with Heroku
Mars Hall and Owen Ou
Provisioning your infrastructure through code has gained popularity as more app services have moved into the cloud. One of the options, Terraform, is an open source project, with plugins available to spin up resources for several platforms....
16. Accessibility in Web Standards
Léonie Watson and Jamie White
The web couldn't exist without standards that define everything from presentation to metadata. For many millions of visually impaired users, the standards that support accessibility are just as important. Léonie Watson has been focused on...
15. Pursuing a Career in Tech
David Routen and Charlie Gleason
Tech is a rapidly growing industry with a wealth of opportunities across a range of skill sets. If you don't come from a programming background, or you’re just starting out and are interested in learning more, tune in as designer and front...
14. Talking About Talks
Richard Schneeman, Terence Lee, Joe Kutner, Amy Unger, Stella Cotton, and Caleb Hearth
After your presentation has been accepted for a conference, actually giving the talk can be an intimidating experience—but it doesn't have to be! Join several Herokai engineers as they open up about their techniques for combating...
13. oclif: An Open Source CLI Framework
Jeff Dickey and Nahid Samsami
As developers, we spend a lot of our time running commands in a terminal, whether for a local project or to manage a service in the cloud. Jeff Dickey of DropBox joins us to talk about his process for building oclif, an open-source framework...
12. Mindfulness at Work
Francis Lacoste and Raúl Barroso
You might believe that meditation techniques are best practiced in silence and solitude. However, there are ways to bring that sense of calm into the office, too. Google launched a mindfulness program to improve the mental wellbeing of its...